[Reprinted from _The_
_Psychological_Review_, vol. XII, No. 1, Jan., 1905. Also reprinted
with some omissions, as Appendix B, _A_Pluralistic_Universe, pp.
370-394. Pp. 166-167 have also been reprinted in
_Some_Problems_of_Philosophy_, p. 212. The present essay is referred to
in _Ibid._, p. 219, note. The author's corrections have been adopted
for the present text. ED.]
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The way of handling things I speak of, is, as
you already will have suspected, that known
sometimes as the pragmatic method, sometimes
as humanism, sometimes as Deweyism,
and in France, by some of the disciples of
Bergson, as the Philosophie nouvelle. Professor
Woodbridge's _Journal_of_Philosophy_(1) seems
unintentionally to have become a sort of meeting
place for those who follow these tendencies
in America. There is only a dim identity
among them; and the most that can be said at
present is that some sort of gestation seems to
be in the atmosphere, and that almost any day
a man with a genius for finding the right word
for things may hit upon some unifying and
conciliating formula that will make so much
vaguely similar aspiration crystallize into
more definite form.
I myself have given the name of 'radical
empiricism' to that version of the tendency in
question which I prefer; and I propose, if you
will now let me, to illustrate what I mean by
radical empiricism, by applying it to activity
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